Thursday, March 29, 2018

By The Wayne Madsen ReportMost
attorneys would jump at the chance to represent the President of the
United States, either as White House counsel or privately. To do so can
elevate a lawyer to the upper ranks of a handful of attorneys who can
name their own rates and choose their own clients. However, in the case
of Donald Trump, a combination of his own disagreeable personality,
failure to pay his his attorneys' fees, perverted sexual history, and
conflicts of interest have turned him into a pariah as a client for most
lawyers.

In the latest bizarre decision of Trump, he approved the hiring of a Disney teen dance show star named Caroline
Sunshine [pictured, left] to be a press assistant at the White House.
Sunshine is a 22-year old blond whose only political experience has been
as a member of her high school’s model United Nations team, an intern
for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and a college activist for the
neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute. It is not Sunshine’s
shallow experience in politics that has Washington talking about Trump’s
latest move, but her resemblance to first daughter
Ivanka Trump. [pictured, right] If Trump thought replacing Stormy on
the front pages with Sunshine might clear up the foul political weather
in Washington, he was sorely mistaken.On more
than one occasion, Trump has revealed to individuals and entire radio
and television audiences an incestuous sexual attraction to his
daughter. Columnist Richard Cohen wrote in a Washington Post column in
2016 that when Ivanka was 13-years old, Trump asked someone that Cohen
knows, “Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter
than your wife?" That part was later edited out of Cohen’s column by
Post management. When Ivanka was hosting the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant,
Trump turned to the reigning Miss Universe, Brook Antoinette Mahealani
Lee, and asked, “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?” In 2003,
Trump said the following on the air about Ivanka to radio shock jock
Howard Stern, “she's got the best body.” In 2004, Trump was back on
Stern’s show, saying that his daughter was, “A piece of ass." Appearing
on ABC’s The View in 2006, Trump, answering a question about whether he
would approve of his daughter posing for Playboy, responded, “I've said
if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." In an
appearance on the Dr. Oz show in 2016, Trump was heard by studio
personnel stating he kisses Ivanka “with every chance [he] gets.” Just
as with Richard Cohen’s column for The Washington Post, this statement
was edited out.

Trump’s
incestuous attraction to his daughter did not stop with these very
public statements. During their 2006 tryst in a Lake Tahoe hotel suite,
Trump, who was married to Melania at the time, told then-27-year old
porn actress Stormy Daniels, aka Stephanie Clifford, “Wow, you — you
are special. You remind me of my daughter.” That same year, during a
10-month affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal, Trump constantly told
her that she was like his daughter Ivanka. According
to Michael Wolff’s book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,”
White House staffers were puzzled over Trump’s relationships with both
Ivanka and departed White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, a
former model. Wolff wrote that the staffers referred to Ivanka as the
president’s “real wife” and Hicks as the president's “real daughter.”
There are reports that Mr. Trump was intensely jealous when he
discovered that his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former
White House personal assistant Rob Porter were dating Hicks. Perhaps
Trump’s “real daughter” reminded him too much of his “real wife.”

We’ll
have to wait until next year for Dr. Justin Frank’s book, “Trump on the
Couch,” the third in a series of books by the Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center on his
psychoanalysis of recent presidents. But, based on Trump’s history of
comments about his daughter, it is safe to assume that he has an
unnatural and quite incestuous sexual attraction to her. And all
of this puts into context a story related to WMR by a source in New York
familiar with the case. In 1997, the same year Trump asked Miss
Universe if she thought 15-year old Ivanka was “hot,” five waiters working
at Trumps Grill, the steakhouse located in the Trump Tower on Fifth
Avenue in Manhattan, allegedly witnessed Trump sexually groping Ivanka
under the table. “His hand was up his daughter’s skirt,” was the comment
of one witness. As employees of Trumps Grill and, given the Mafia-like
conditions working for the Trump Organization, the waiters were afraid
to say anything at the time.

This
incident, combined with all the comments made by Trump about his
daughter, as well as his and his friend Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged 1994
rape of 13-year old Katie Johnson and 12-year old Maria -- the latter
abducted from a street in Waterbury, Connecticut the year before -- have
made Trump the “client from hell” for most attorneys. Trump’s current
defense team consists of a Mafia-like personal attorney, Michael Cohen;
White House counsel Don McGahn, who is reportedly eager to leave his
post; McGahn’s colleague, Ty Cobb, who also reportedly wants out;
right-wing constitutional lawyer Jay Sekulow; and Trump’s newest
addition, Dr. Andrew Ekonomou, the assistant district attorney of
Brunswick, Georgia, who also has a doctorate in medieval history.
Ekonomou replaced Washington insider John Dowd, who was fired by Trump.

Perhaps
it was wise for Trump to bring Ekonomou, an expert on ancient history,
onto his legal team. Surely, Ekonomou is familiar with the incest
practiced by the Roman Emperor Caligula and the mythological incestuous
relationship between the sibling Greek gods Hera and Zeus, which
produced many children. While state laws on incest vary, every state
criminalizes sex between an adult and a minor, whether or not the minor
is an offspring. However, every major religion considers incest to be an
abominable sin. It is the sleaziness that surrounds Trump that has made
him toxic to most attorneys in Washington.

By The Wayne Madsen ReportThere
are increasing worries that Donald Trump's special adviser and
son-in-law, Jared Kushner, specifically requested Top Secret
intelligence files to pass gleaned information to Israeli intelligence.
WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources that Kushner's compromise of
National Security Agency and allied FIVE EYES partners' intercepts of
foreign leaders led to his losing his temporary access to Top
Secret/Special Compartmented Information (SCI).

According
to our sources, NSA intelligence analysts became suspicious when
Israeli companies specializing in not only gathering signals
intelligence (SIGINT) information, but also protecting against such
collection, began aggressively marketing their services to particular
countries, especially those in Africa.

Kushner
has already been accused of passing NSA communications intercept
transcripts on key government and business leaders in Saudi Arabia to
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS). After determining who in the
House of Saud and Saudi business community were opposed to his rise to
power, MbS singled them out for arrest and torture. In a few cases,
MbS's targets were executed.

NSA fears that not only transcripts of its intercepts of Saudi officials were passed by Kushner to MbS, but
also to the Israeli government. [right, Kushner pictured with his
Israeli handlers in Jerusalem] This not only compromised targets of
NSA's wide surveillance net, but also the agency's sensitive sources and
methods for collecting such intelligence.

What
alarmed NSA officials more than anything else is their observation that
Israeli signals intelligence (SIGINT) companies, comprised of former
SIGINT officers with Israel's Unit 8200 communications intercept agency,
began aggressively marketing offensive and defensive SIGINT
capabilities to other countries. These countries are routine targets for
NSA collection efforts. Through the use of the joint NSA-Central
Intelligence Agency Special Collection Service (SCS), intercepts of
diplomatic, military, and other official communications are provided in
either full or abridged transcript form to cleared U.S. policymakers.
These are the files that were routinely requested by Kushner for no
apparent reason, raising eyebrows within the upper echelon of the
National Security Council. One of those who raised concerns about
Kushner's "curiosity" for such information was Lt. General H. R.
McMaster, who was recently fired by Trump, largely at the urging of
Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump. National Security Adviser John
Bolton, a pro-Israeli neo-conservative, has vowed to fire those who
questioned Kushner's motives and those of his father-in-law in not
taking immediate steps to curtail Kushner's access to such intelligence.

Kushner,
who has no intelligence or military experience, specifically requested
intercept transcripts on governments that are now on the receiving end
of aggressive Israeli marketing efforts. Although Kushner has reported
responsibilities for U.S. relations with the Middle East, Mexico, and
China, there is no valid reason for him to have requested and read NSA
transcripts of intercepted communications of such African leaders as
Senegal's President Macky Sall, Cote d'Ivoire's President Alassane
Ouatarra, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, or Gabon's President Ali
Bongo.Many African countries use low-level forms of encryption, mostly supplied by French firms, that are easy to break. NSA
is able to decrypt foreign communications, including those transmitted
over Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), using a system code-named
BIRDWATCHER, which forwards such coded communications to other NSA
systems for code-breaking. However, Israeli firms are now
able to sell more sophisticated systems to such governments. What the
foreign governments do not realize is that Israeli intelligence has the
decryption keys. Upgrading foreign government encryption with Israeli
products also makes it that much harder for NSA to decrypt the
communications, including e-mail. By providing such information on
communication security vulnerabilities to the Israelis, Kushner has
caused irreparable harm to U.S. national security. If such a security
violation resulted in a criminal indictment, Kushner could be looking at
multiple life terms in federal prison.One
such Israeli company that has moved into Africa to the chagrin of NSA
and its partners in Britain and Canada is SAFNA, a firm headquartered in
Israel's "intelligence city" of Herzliya, where Unit 8200, [pictured
left] the lesser known Unit 8100, and various Mossad operations are
located. The company's president is a Moroccan-born Jew named Didier
Sabag, who also runs two Israeli firms based in Hong Kong, Hamsa Ltd.
and Orot Ltd., both of which appear to be Israeli intelligence fronts.
NSA is concerned that SAFNA will stymie its ability to monitor
governments in the Sahel region that are also targets for the Islamic
State and Al Qaeda jihadists. Governments courted by SAFNA include
Morocco, Guinea-Bissau (a major transshipment point for narcotics from
Latin America to North Africa and Europe), Benin, and the Central
African Republic.

Other
Israeli SIGINT firms are marketing their services in India. A recent
visit by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to India cemented
growing military and intelligence links between Tel Aviv and Delhi.
Similar aggressive Israeli SIGINT marketing is being reported from
Azerbaijan, which shares a border with Iran; Angola; Mozambique; Saudi
Arabia; Bahrain; and the United Arab Emirates.

The
compromise of SIGINT by Kushner followed the revelation that Lt.
General Michael Flynn, Trump's short-lived National Security Adviser,
had a contractual relationship with another large Israeli cyber-warfare
firm specializing in hacking computer systems. The firm was NSO
Group Technologies, also located in the Herzliya espionage metroplex.
Trump --whose presidential campaign's links to the data mining firm
Cambridge Analytica have been established -- may also be linked to
another Israeli electronic surveillance firm, Black Cube, primarily
consisting of ex-Mossad officers. Black Cube cyber-spies were retained
to penetrate the email and medical records of Nigerian President
Muhammadu Buhari, while he was a presidential candidate; and to dig up
dirt on Kenyan opposition politicians; Mexican, United Arab Emirates,
Moroccan, and Bahraini human rights activists; and women who accused
disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

John Bolton seen more frequently around the White House By The Wayne Madsen Report John
Bolton, the only unconfirmed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to
have ever represented his country in the international organization, has
recently been seen more frequently around the White House. There are
strong rumors that Donald Trump's next purge will claim the National
Security Adviser, Lt. General H. R. McMaster, and that Bolton has the
inside track to replace him. Bolton taking over the National Security
Council will, after a nine-year hiatus, put the neo-conservatives back
in the foreign policy and national security driver's seat in Washington.

The
firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his replacement by
Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo, a neocon and Christian
Dominionist, and the continued presence of neocon Nikki Haley in
Bolton's old job at the U.N. marks a sharp turn for a president who
campaigned on general U.S. non-involvement in global affairs as the
"world's policeman." Bolton, Pompeo, and Haley advocate a more
confrontational U.S. foreign policy with nations like Russia, China,
Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela.

Bolton had Trump's ear when Steve Bannon was serving as Trump's strategic adviser. After Bannon was fired last August, Bolton saw
his access to the White House rescinded by chief of staff John Kelly
and National Security Adviser McMaster. Bolton was rumored to be a
strong candidate for Secretary of State or National Security Adviser
during the presidential transition process in late 2016. [Bolton at
Trump Tower for Dec. 2016 interview, left]

In
recent months, Bolton has seen his White House access restored and he
regularly briefs Trump on national security and foreign policy issues.

Bolton,
like Trump, is plagued by allegations of bizarre sexual activities.
Bolton's first wife, Cristina Bolton, claimed in court filings in
Virginia that Bolton forced her into having group sex at Plato's
Retreat, a Manhattan swingers club that catered to heterosexual couples
and bisexual women and operated between 1977 and 1985. The club was
located in what had been a gay bathhouse known as Continental Baths.
Plato's Retreat moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where
it changed its name to "321 Slammer" and is now a gay male sex club. On
August 15, 1982, while John Bolton was on a two-week trip in his
position as assistant administrator for the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID), Mrs. Bolton fled their residence at
918 Grand Court, Vienna, Virginia, taking with her all of her personal
possessions and most of the furniture.

With
such a personal history, Bolton might have faced a tougher time getting
confirmed for a post entailing even greater access to highly-classified
information than the U.N. ambassador post. However, the National
Security Adviser position does not require Senate confirmation.Bolton’s
tenure at the U.N. was punctuated by his own undiplomatic outbursts, as
well as those of his spokesman and personal assistant, Richard Grenell,
Trump’s openly-gay nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Germany. Bolton
strenuously pushed the neocon foreign policy line, as spelled out in the
charter for the movement founded in 1997, the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC).

Bolton also favors scrapping the Iran
P5+1 nuclear agreement, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan
of Action (JCPOA). Bolton’s international views are no different than
those of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a camaraderie Bolton
shares with Trump.

On
the issue of Palestine, Bolton has demanded the abolishment of the U.N.
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which administers aid programs for
Palestinian refugees. In May 2017, before accepting the Guardian of Zion
Award from Bar-Ilan University in Jerusalem, Bolton told The Jerusalem Post
that the “two-state solution” of Israel and an independent Palestinian
state should be abandoned, Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority
disbanded, Gaza given to Egypt, and the West Bank divided between Israel
and Jordan. Bolton cynically said he believes in a “three-state
solution” with Israel, Egypt, and Jordan taking control of current
Palestinian territory.

Trump
may not be the only top U.S. official with a blackmail problem over sex
claims. A photograph of a bulletin board at Plato's Retreat clearly
offers customers the videotaping of their sex acts. [Pictured, right]
Whether or not Bolton knows it, his "swinging acts" may have been
captured on video, which may explain his subservience to Israel. Plato's
Retreat was founded by a high school friend of New York pornographer Al
Goldstein. Goldstein had something in common with Trump's convicted
child molester friend, Jeffrey Epstein: they both shared the same
criminal defense attorney, Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz has also been an
ardent defender of Trump and his policies.

Bolton’s
neocon rhetoric on NATO is no less alarming. He wants membership in
NATO fast-tracked for Ukraine and Georgia. Bolton as Trump’s national
security adviser would help usher into the Trump White House Bolton’s
fellow neocons ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute in
Washington, where Bolton enjoys a senior fellowship.Bolton
actually believes Iran is exploiting the political turmoil in Venezuela
to gain access to the country’s uranium deposits. He also is convinced
that Hezbollah has established a drug-running network in Latin America.
Bolton has called on Trump to reassert the arcane Monroe Doctrine –
proclaiming the Western Hemisphere as America’s domain – because of
“Russian meddling” in Latin America. Bolton’s predilection for such
conspiracy theories, while welcomed and highly sought in Republican
Party cuckoo land, are not the product of sober intelligence analysis of
world events.

Thursday, March 08, 2018

Historical evidence points to Trump's father being a Nazi sympathizer; possible wartime agent

By The Wayne Madsen ReportAn
historian, who specializes on Nazi influence in America during the
1920s, 30s, and early 40s, has contacted WMR with supporting evidence
that Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father and New York real estate baron,
was not only a Nazi sympathizer during the 1920s and 30s, during the
time of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, but may have also acted
as an intelligence agent for Nazi Germany in wartime America.

Heretofore, the evidence that Fred Trump was a Nazi sympathizer rested on a June 1, 1927 article in The New York Times.
The article, "Warren Criticizes 'Class' Parades," reported that "1,000
Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all battle in Jamaica."
Jamaica is a neighborhood
in Queens where Fred Trump resided at the time. Donald Trump has
consistently sought to obfuscate the fact of his father's arrest,
claiming in media interviews that it never happened and that his father
never lived at 175-24 Devonshire Road in Jamaica, as claimed in The New York Times story from 1927. Fred Trump, according to the Times
story, was released by Magistrate Thomas F. Doyle. It is noteworthy
that Fred Trump and the six other defendants arrested with him at the
Klan march were represented by ex-Judge Edgar F. Hazleton, described in
the article as a "prominent member of the Knights of Columbus," the Roman Catholic fraternal society. Fred Trump and his fellow Klansmen were actually protesting against the "Roman Catholic" New York Police Department when the melee broke out with the hundred New York cops.However, an announcement of the marriage of Fred Trump to Mary A. MacLeod, Donald Trump's mother, that ran in the January 22, 1936 edition of the Long Island Daily Press clearly states that Fred Trump of "175-24 Devonshire road, Jamaica." Donald Trump has a habit of calling any news unfavorable to him and his family "fake news" from the "lying media." In fact, "lying press" (Lügenpresse) was a pejorative used by the Nazis in Germany to describe "Jewish,
Communist, and foreign-owned" media. During the 2016 presidential
campaign, the term "lying press" was resurrected by Trump supporters,
including members of alt-right neo-Nazi groups.The
fact that a prominent member of the Knights of Columbus would represent
Fred Trump and the other Klansmen is interesting because the 1920s --
which saw a KKK heavily steeped in anti-Catholic and anti-papacy beliefs
-- would quickly subside in the 1930s and give way to the
German-American Bund as the leading far-right political grouping in the
United States. The Bund supported Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.
Because Hitler was a Roman Catholic, the American far-right toned down
anti-Catholic fervor and concentrated their venom on Jews and blacks.

Fred
Trump's parents hailed from Bavaria and, although they were ostensibly
Lutheran, their home village in predominantly Lutheran Kallstadt was
surrounded by heavily Catholic parishes. On the eve of the outbreak of
World War II, Fred Trump, already a successful real estate mogul in
Queens and Brooklyn, claimed that he and his parents were Swedish.

Claiming
false Swedish lineage was no guarantee of avoiding accusations of
pro-Nazi sympathies. During the 1930s, one of the biggest apologists for
Nazi Germany was Swedish-American, Charles Lindbergh. "Lucky Lindy" was
even awarded the Service Cross
of the German Eagle by Nazi Air Minister Hermann Goering in Berlin in
1938. Lindbergh was a prominent member of the America First Committee, which urged the United States to avoid a war with Germany and which had much in common with the pro-Nazi German-American Bund. Donald Trump has resurrected "America First" in his political rhetoric.Trump apologists claim that Fred Trump was probably arrested not as a marching Klansman, but
as an innocent bystander attending what was billed as a Memorial Day
parade honoring military war dead. This contention is without merit as
seen in the June 2, 1927 edition of the Long Island Daily Press. [Pictured, right] The article on the KKK march clearly states that "when the police attempted to
break up the formation of klansmen and resulted in the arrests of seven
of the berobed marchers." Not only was Fred Trump part of the Klan
march, but he was wearing the signature white robe and regalia of the Ku
Klux Klan when he was arrested.Donald Trump may try to convince his followers that The New York Times is "fake news" -- a ridiculous charge considering the Times
article is from 1927, long before Trump's "fake news" meme gained any
currency -- but he cannot explain why the same report on his father's
arrest appeared in three others newspapers: The Daily Star of Brooklyn of June 1, 1927; The Queens County Evening News of June 2, 1927; and The Richmond Hill Record of June 3, 1927. [Pictured right from top to bottom]

All three papers, along with The New York Times and The Long Island Daily Press, the Daily Press
providing details about Fred Trump's KKK march participation and Klan
robes, are certainly not "fake news," but legitimate references that
would be relied upon by any historian or biographer. Four of the papers include Fred Trump's address as 175-24 Devonshire, which Donald Trump claimed was never his father's address.

The Richmond Hill Record provides interesting details about Fred
Trump's fellow "Jamaica Seven" Klansmen. They hailed from around the
New York area: John Kipp of Peekskill, New York; John Marcy of Yonkers,
New York; Fred Lyons of New Hyde Park, Long Island; Thomas Carroll of
Jamaica; and
Harry J. Free of Carl Place, Long Island; as well as Thomas Erwin of
West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The KKK march in Queens was no local
affair and drew participants from beyond New York City. In the 1930s, Nazi meetings in New York,
including the February 20, 1939, 20,000-strong "Americanization" rally
at Madison Square Garden, drew participants from around the country, but especially from Long Island, upstate New York, New Jersey, and the Philadelphia area.

There is also the interesting fact that members of the Knight of Columbus defended the ostensibly anti-Catholic Klan, with John P. Conlon, the marshal for five years of the Jamaica
Division of the parade, being quoted as saying, "Police action was
atrocious and entirely unwarranted. Police performed atrocities which
were unpardonable. Without their interference the parade would have been
perfect. I am a Knights of Columbus man and I do not agree with the
principles of the Klan, but I do believe they should have been granted
permission to participate in any parade to honor dead war veterans."The Klan marchers in Queens [pictured, left] believed that theNYPD was a "Roman Catholic" police force, so it would appear unusual for a leading Catholic organization like the Knights of Columbus to defend the KKK. However, given the situation in Europe with
the steady rise of Nazism in Germany and fascism in Italy, the
right-wing Catholic rapprochement with the KKK is perfectly logical as
both groups decided
to make common cause against Communism, "Jewish Bolshevism," and
socialism. The year 1929 saw the enactment of the Lateran Treaty between
the Vatican and Benito Mussolini's fascist government, while the
Concordat (Reichskonkordat) between the Vatican and Nazi
Germany was signed in 1933 between Vatican Secretary of State Eugenio
Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII (the so-called "Nazi Pope') and Nazi
Vice Chancellor Franz Von Papen. These two agreements resulted in Nazi
and fascist groups around the world, including the KKK, making common
cause with far-right groups, regardless of their Catholic ties.

Perhaps
no one was more instrumental in uniting the pro-Nazi sympathizers
within the United States than Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles
Coughlin. The expert on American Nazism and fascism in the interwar
years, a renowned expert on Coughlin, believes that Fred Trump was a
follower of not only Coughlin, but of Hitler. The expert's research
indicates that Coughlin, much of whose material came from early and
rather obscure Hitler speeches, influenced not only Fred Trump but also
his son Donald. Research into Hitler's speeches and those of Coughlin
and Donald Trump show definite similarities in rhetoric and policies.
For example, Donald Trump has called the press the "enemy of the
American people." Hitler stated, "A press which is in principle
anti-national cannot be tolerated in Germany." The Coughlin expert told
WMR that Hitler and Donald Trump have one definite thing in common: "Hitler took advantage of those who thought they were taking advantage of him," adding that Trump does the very same.Coughlin,
whose weekly radio broadcasts from Michigan reached up to 30 million
listeners in the United States, were laced with rhetoric in support of
Hitler, Mussolini, and Japanese Emperor Hirohito. In 1938, Coughlin
voiced support for the Nazi Kristallnacht in Germany, which saw attacks
on Jews, synagogues, and
Jewish-owned businesses throughout the country. Coughlin also received
financial support from Nazi Germany and, along with Lindbergh, was a
leading figure in the America First movement.

In the years
between Fred Trump's arrest as a robed Klansmen in Queens and his
surfacing as a U.S. government contractor, little is known. Trump was
busy building barracks and other buildings for the U.S. Navy troop
embarkation ports in Chester, Pennsylvania and Norfolk and Newport News,
Virginia. As WMR stated in our August 16, 2017 report: "Around
1937, Fred Trump's pals in the Klan joined with the Bund and the Nazi
Silver Shirts and Black Legion to form the Storm Troops. This early
"United the Right" movement received heavy corporate funding. By 1937,
Fred Trump was making handsome profits as a notorious Queens slum lord.
Did any of those profits end up in the coffers of either the Bund or
Storm Troops?" In addition, we reported that a Bund member,
German immigrant Waldemar Othmer, infiltrated the U.S. military as a
civilian employee and dutifully sent via microfilm information to his
Abwehr handlers in Berlin on the movements of British
and American military vessels, convoys, and merchant ships out of
Brooklyn and Norfolk. Sinking American ships was a high priority for
German naval commander Admiral Karl Donitz, who dubbed the program
Operation Paukenschlag or Drumbeat."

Considering Fred
Trump's Klan background and the "unite the right" agreement between the
Klan and the Bund-affiliated groups in the United States, did the father
of the current president have loyalties to another master, perhaps Herr
Hitler? As we previously reported, 'there
is every indication that Fred Trump held his far-right views during the
war. He adamantly refused to rent to African Americans, even though
many of them worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and other nearby military
bases and were in need of housing. When the draft was imposed in 1940,
Fred Trump, who was 35, was subject to conscription but was never
drafted. In 1942, Trump's age and dependent children would have put him
in a lower priority category for the draft. Yet, Fred Trump did not
serve in any draft-exempt occupational areas such as war production or
public health and safety."

FBI
files on Fred Trump, while containing information on his violation of
the Fair Housing Act in the 1960s in refusing to sell or rent to blacks
and his ties to organized crime, are void of any mention of his
activities in the 1930s and 40s. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover is known
to have downplayed the collection of intelligence on America Firsters
and Nazis until the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Defenders
of Fred Trump point to his friendship in the 1980s with then-Israeli
ambassador to the United Nations Benjamin Netanyahu and Fred Trump's
donations to Jewish causes. However, Netanyahu, whose Likud Party has
joined political forces with far-right and neo-Nazi groups in Europe and
tolerated similar groups in the West Bank and Israel proper, is hardly
an exemplar for establishing one's anti-Nazi bona fides. Donald Trump's
embrace of pro-Israel Stephen Miller as his adviser and major
speechwriter is no different than his father's embrace of Netanyahu.
Miller serves as a conduit for President Trump to the alt-right
neo-Nazis led by Miller's friend and Duke University classmate, Richard
Spencer.

As president, Donald Trump has shown loyalty to foreign
autocrats but little to the U.S. Constitution. Donald Trump has called
neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia "fine people" and he has
extolled the "virtues" of Confederate generals, placing himself in the
mold of his Klan father. Rather than call for a military march in
Washington, DC, Mr. Trump might want to fess up about his father's time
as a Klansman and as a possible Nazi sympathizer and war-time agent. In
the case of the President of the United States, it is not the sins of
the father that are as important as the political indoctrination passed
down from father to son.

Monday, March 05, 2018

At a Republican Party fundraising dinner and reception held at his Mar-a-Lago resort over the weekend, Donald Trump remarked that he envies Chinese President Xi Jinping [pictured, right] for having recently abolished the two-term limit for his office, thus opening the way for Xi to remain as president of China for life, well past what had been a presidential term that was due to expire in 2023. At 64 years of age, Xi could remain as president well into the 2030s and, quite possibly, beyond.

Ignoring the fact that China is a one-party state, Trump told the enthusiastic 250 Republican donors, who paid $27,700 per couple to attend the dinner, "He’s [Xi's] now president for life . . . president for life. And he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.” Trump is limited to two terms in office as stipulated by a Constitutional amendment enacted in 1951.

On December 18, 2000, after it became clear that George W. Bush was president-elect after a dubious election that was contested in the courts, the president-elect said, after a meeting with Congressional leaders, "I told all four that there were going to be some times where we don't agree with each other. But that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." Bush's cackling after his comment showed he thought it was funny, but members of Congress on both sides of the aisle felt the comment was inappropriate and dangerous. Bush got the message, but that did not stop him from praising other dictators, even while claiming credit for ridding the world of Saddam Hussein, who he called a ruthless dictator. Bush's dictator transgressions now seem mild compared to those of Trump.

Trump called Xi "a great gentleman," adding, "he’s the most powerful president in a hundred years." Trump appeared to have disregarded the fact that Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong ruled China with an iron fist from 1949 to 1976.Trump's quip about becoming president-for-life was not his first dalliance with projecting fascist tendencies. On February 28, 2016, Trump tweeted a quote made notorious by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, "It is better to live one day as a lion than a 100 years as a sheep." In defending the tweet after criticism, Trump said, "Mussolini was Mussolini . . . It's a very good quote. It's a very interesting quote." The electoral gains of Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an open admirer of Mussolini and his Italian fascist movement, will undoubtedly encourage Trump's promotion of fascism and dictators.

According to a 1990 interview she gave to Vanity Fair, Trump's ex-wife, Ivana Trump, said Trump kept a copy of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf on a book cabinet by his bed. She said Trump would read the book "from time-to-time." Asked by Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner about the book, Trump replied, "Who told you that? . . . I don't remember . . . Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew."

In May 2017, Trump told Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte that he was "doing an unbelievable job on the drug problem." Since being elected in June 2016, Duterte has carried out more than 6000 extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers. When Duterte decides to eliminate a political opponent, he merely charges them with drug dealing. Last month, Trump said he wished he could execute drug dealers in the United States, following the example of Singapore. Since its independence in 1965, Singapore adopted a meritocratic form of government, which dissuades active political opposition in return for a generous social welfare system. Trump has been quoted by one White House aide, according to Axios, as saying, "You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them."

During a visit to Manila on November 17, 2017, Trump yucked it up with Duterte after the Philippines autocrat accused American journalists of being "spies." In response to American reporters' questions about Trump bringing up human rights in his conversations with Duterte, Trump cut off the questioners with Duterte chiming in, "With you around, guys, you are the spies," repeating, "You are." In 2016, Duterte justified killing journalists in the Philippines, declaring, "Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination if you’re a son of a bitch."

In September 2017, Trump praised Turkey's autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has imprisoned opposition politicians, journalists, businessmen, military officers, and academics, giving him "high marks." It is now widely believed in Turkey and abroad that Erdogan allowed the July 15, 2016 coup to commence, knowing full well that he would be able to put it down in its infancy and justify his subsequent assumption of near-dictatorial powers. Trump congratulated Erdogan for the passage in 2017 of a referendum that gave the Turkish president virtual unlimited powers.

Trump has also offered praise for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who came to power after he ousted the democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mohamed Morsi in a July 2013 coup. In April 2017, Trump said he was "very much behind President al-Sisi," adding, "he's done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation." Sisi has jailed the political opposition and members of the media and permits no dissent in Egypt.

In November 2017, Trump praised a royal coup within the House of Saud as an "anti-corruption" initiative. Trump tweeted, "I have great confidence in King Salman and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, they know exactly what they are doing . . . Some of those they are harshly treating have been ‘milking’ their country for years!” Trump failed to mention how King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), has been taking part in the Saudi "milking" operation. MBS, with his dementia-stricken father's blessing, arrested hundreds of Saudi princes, government ministers, businessmen, and diplomats in a sweeping purge that saw some Saudi princes, reportedly with the aid of mercenaries supplied by Blackwater founder Erik Prince's Abu Dhabi-based Reflex Responses (R2), being hung upside down by their toes during torture sessions in Riyadh. Prince's sister, Betsy De Vos, serves as Trump's Secretary of Education. Trump's reference to "harsh treatment" by MBS failed to mention that at least two Saudi princes were assassinated by forces loyal to MBS.

Trump has also avidly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is on the verge of being re-elected Russia's president and who has held the post of president or prime minister since 2000. In September 2016, Trump said of Putin, "he's been a leader, far more than our president [Barack Obama] has been a leader."

In April 2017, Trump, during a meeting with his erstwhile Argentine real estate business partner, President Mauricio Macri, called the right-wing Argentine leader "a good friend," "a great, wonderful person," and "a great leader." Macri has misused the Argentine court system and presidential powers to imprison and put on trial leaders of the political opposition, as well as attacking the opposition media and labor unions. Trump has also praised Honduran strongman President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was re-elected in a November 26, 2017 election marred by electoral fraud and violation of civil liberties.

The 1930s saw the global rise of fascist dictatorships in Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Austria, Portugal, China, Argentina, Brazil, Greece, and other nations. The world could count on an American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to hold the ground for a small group of democratic nations that were, early on, outgunned by the fascist powers. And had FDR not been president in the 1930s, with fascism-appeasers such as Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon, and Wendell Willkie serving as successive U.S. presidents, the entire world would have quickly come under the yoke and jackboot of fascist rule under the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. Today, a supporter and appeaser serves as President of the United States and there is no longer an American backstop to prevent the world from falling under fascist rule.

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The criminal syndicate with links to the Trump Organization is very similar to Ian Fleming's fictional SPECTRE, the organization of crime bosses and former spies recruited from the ranks of Joseph Stalin's SMERSH (SMERt' SHpionam, or "Death to Spies," security service), Nazi Germany’s Gestapo, Yugoslav Marshal Josip Tito’s secret police, the Italian Mafia, the Unione Corse (the Corsican Mafia), and a massive heroin-smuggling syndicate based in Turkey. The Japanese yakuza and Chinese Triads also lent their services to SPECTRE. Led by Polish-Greek super-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, SPECTRE was stymied at every turn by British agent 007 James Bond.

Fleming was prescient in his creation of SPECTRE. Today, a criminal syndicate with roots and tentacles in the former Soviet states, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Asia, and Latin America has taken over the White House; Kremlin; Beit Rosh HaMemshala - the official residence of the Israeli Prime Minister; the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Argentina, the White Palace in Ankara, and other seats of government around the world. Former British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent Christopher Steele, the closest we have to a James Bond, has been pilloried by the right-wing press and Republicans in Congress -- all owned by the real-life SPECTRE -- for bringing attention to the infiltration of the Trump presidential campaign by the global crime syndicate, which could be called "TRUMPKUSHMAN" -- "Trump, Kushner, and Manafort."

The syndicate goes by many names -- Eurasian Mafia (preferred by the FBI); Russian Organized Crime (ROC) (a misnomer considering the fact that Ukrainians, Moldovans, Azerbaijanis, Latvians, and others are heavily involved); Red Mafiya (a term coined by author Robert Friedman after the fall of the Soviet Union); "Bratva" (Russian for "brotherhood"); and "Kosher Nostra" (a take-off on the Italian Cosa Nostra and a term not considered politically correct, except for FBI agents and police detectives when they use it privately).

The investigation of the Trump, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort organizations by Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly opened up a Pandora's Box of criminal intelligence on money laundering, smuggling, human trafficking, embezzlement, stock fraud, tax evasion using offshore accounts, and contract murder schemes.

A business squabble between the Trump Organization on one side and the owner and condominium owners’ association on the other, which concerns the operations of the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City, Panama, has resulted in a Panamanian law enforcement investigation of the Trump Organization. The Trump Organization in Panama has been busy shredding documents after the hotel owners ordered them evicted from the property. The documents being destroyed concern various Trump Tower investors, including a Brazilian fraudster named Alexandre Ventura Nogueira who dealt personally with Eric, Donald, Jr, and Ivanka Trump on the Panama hotel/condo project. Trump Tower investors also included David Murcia Guzman, a Colombian drug money launderer; suspected human trafficker from the Ukraine, and a native of Moscow named Arkady Vodovosov, who served a five-year prison sentence for kidnapping and threats to torture and murder; a Belarusian-Israeli bank fraudster and Trump Mar-a-Lago Country Club member named Alexander Altshoul (and a relative of Vodovosov); and a Ukrainian named Stanislau Kavalenka investigated by Canadian authorities for sex trafficking. Altshoul was also involved in the Trump Tower project in Toronto.

Also involved with Trump in the Panama City project was former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, who is currently being held at the Federal Detention Center in Miami awaiting extradition to Panama. The U.S. Justice Department, reportedly at the behest of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has been slow to act on extraditing Martinelli to Panama, where it is expected he will divulge, in a public trial, details of Trump's operations in the Panama City building complex. Judge Edwin Torres of the U.S. District Court in Miami, ordered Martinelli extradited to Panama. However, the ex-president's attorneys are appealing the decision. Martinelli has been linked to the hemispheric-wide scandal involving the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht and bribes to politicians in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia and other Latin American nations. Martinelli and members of his family represent a possible link between Odebrecht and the Trump White House, including Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump and real estate chicanery in Panama.

SPECTRE was known in the Bond movies for its audacious crimes, including precipitating a U.S.-Soviet nuclear war, launching a biological warfare attack, and assassinating political leaders and overthrowing governments. The crime syndicate responsible for putting Donald Trump in the White House is no less impudent than its fictional counterpart. One of the now-defunct corporate contrivances that has links to the Manafort and Trump Organizations is Ignorus, LLC of Palm City, Florida. While Ignorus's corporate masters want the public to ignore it and other artifices now being investigated by Mueller's prosecution team, the Special Counsel has other ideas, as seen with his list of Manafort companies detailed in successive federal indictments. Firms like Ignorus represents the type of corporate glue that links together the networks of Trump, Manafort, and Trump presidential campaign financier and Ukrainian-American real-estate magnate Alexander Rovt.

Linked to Ukrainian fertilizer magnate Dmitry Firtash, ordered extradited to the United States by Austrian authorities, Rovt, who self-identifies as a "Carpathian Jew," bought Lower Manhattan's Bankers Trust building, damaged in the 9/11 attack, for a bargain price of $303 million in cash. Along with Trump, Kushner, and Larry Silverstein, Rovt is now considered one of New York City's top real estate magnates. The dubious dealings in which these and other members of the global syndicate engaged are no longer being ignored, as the name of the former firm in Florida strongly implied.

The Trump administration has shown that it is more than capable and willing to take advantage of any event, regardless of the sensitivities, to reap political fodder. The recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 students lost their lives, is no different. Trump and his supporters have used the incident to call for the arming of school teachers, even though an overwhelming majority of teachers and school administrators have rejected the idea as ludicrous.

A major red flag in the incident has been raised with comments made by Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel [pictured, right]. County sheriffs in Florida are elected positions. Israel, a native of New York City, began his police career with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. In 2012, Israel was elected as Broward County Sheriff as a Democrat. However, Israel, a former registered Republican, is no ordinary Democrat. In his 2012 race, Israel received the backing of Republican dirty tricks operative Roger Stone, a resident of Coral Springs in Broward, whose sleazy work extends back to the Richard Nixon administration and encompasses the campaigns of Ronald Reagan, John McCain, and Donald Trump. Stone was involved in dirty tricks operations against CBS anchorman Dan Rather and New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. In many ways, Stone makes longtime GOP operative Karl Rove, himself no stranger to dirty tricks, look like a saint by comparison.

No sooner had he been elected Broward County Sheriff, Israel hired Michael Colapietro, Stone's co-author of the books "The Man Who Killed Kennedy — The Case Against LBJ" and "Nixon's Secrets," as a Sheriff's Department community affairs specialist. Another community affairs specialist hired by Israel was Stone's book publicist, Jennifer "Jen" Hobbs. Together with his friend Andrew Miller, who runs the blog Broward Bugle.com, Stone has backed Israel politically. Stone and Miller have defended Israel against charges of excessive force by police officers in Broward County.

Israel also hired Chairwoman of the Libertarian Party of Miami-Dade County and Miami Tea Party co-founder Dianne Thorn as the sheriff's assistant chief of staff. It just so happened that Thorn was Stone's longtime personal assistant and Miller's former step-mother.

Israel's close connections to Stone do not end with Colapietro, Hobbs, and Thorn. Israel's general counsel is Stone's longtime friend Ron Gunzburger, an early supporter of Israel for sheriff. Topping off the Israel-Stone connection is the fact that Stone's stepson, Scott Stone, was transferred by Israel to a detective job even though he only had two years on the police force. Israel told the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, "if his name was Scott Jones, he would still be [a sheriff's deputy]."

Israel is being criticized for the way his department handled the high school shooting carried out by former student Nikolas Cruz. Although one sheriff's deputy assigned to the Parkland high school resigned after failing to enter the school after Cruz began to open fire with an AR-15 assault rifle and two others are under investigation for failing to heed prior warnings the department received about Cruz, Israel is refusing to take any responsibility for the bloody mayhem. There are calls from 73 GOP state representatives for Governor Rick Scott, a Republican and Trump supporter, to remove Israel from his sheriff's position. Given the close ties of Israel to Stone, Trump's unofficial political adviser, that is unlikely. Israel's membership of the Parkland Chabad House (known as a front for Mossad activities) and his endorsement of the teachings of the Talmud have ensured that he is immune to political pressure in Broward County, which has a politically-influential Jewish community.

In a February 25, 2018 interview with CNN, Israel made a boast worthy of Donald Trump. He told CNN's Jake Tapper, "I provided amazing leadership to this agency.” Asked by Tapper if he would resign, Israel declared, "Of course I won’t resign."

The Coral Springs police officers who arrived at Stoneman High School to find four Broward deputies waiting outside the school as Cruz carried out his killing spree are not so taken with Israel's "leadership" qualities. Coral Springs police officers were the first to enter the school and Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi was irate that Israel took all the credit for the enforcement response to the shooting and the efforts of the Coral Springs Police and Fire Departments were largely ignored. Israel appears to be at the nexus of failures to coordinate red flag warnings received about Cruz by Broward County mental health officials, the local FBI office, neighboring Palm Beach County law enforcement officials, and his own sheriff's department.

Arch-conspirator and health supplement flim-flam salesman Alex Jones, who features Stone on his broadcasts, downplayed Stone's connection to Israel, claiming he just "had dinner with the sheriff." Jones's ignoring Stone's close relationship with Israel, whom Jones erroneously called "a big Hillary boot-licker," is in keeping with the constant stream of lies and misinformation disseminated by Jones, Stone, their propaganda acolytes, and their number one fan, Trump.

Stoneman High School was not the first major shooting incident on Israel's watch. On January 6, 2017, just fourteen days before Trump's inauguration, a former member of the Puerto Rico and Alaska National Guard, Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, arriving at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a Delta flight from Anchorage via Minneapolis, unpacked his luggage in the baggage claim area. In a restroom, Santiago-Ruiz loaded a 9-millimeter automatic pistol he declared in his checked in baggage in Anchorage and proceeded to open fire on other passengers in the baggage area, killing five and wounding six. Santiago-Ruiz was known to the FBI office in Anchorage as a mentally disturbed individual and he was eventually fired by his private security firm employer, Signal 88 Security, which is based in Omaha. In 2007, Signal 88's CEO was featured on Fox News [pictured, left] after Richard Hawkins entered Westroads Mall in Omaha -- whose owners have strong Israeli connections -- opened fire, killing eight shoppers. There were immediate calls for metal detectors to be installed at entrances to shopping malls across the United States.

The Fort Lauderdale airport investigation was stymied by the leak of an airport videotape of the shooting to the media. Broward County Sheriff's deputy Michael Dingman was discovered to have leaked the video to TMZ. Although Dingman was suspended -- with pay -- considering the number of Stone cronies working within the Broward Sheriff's office, the videotape leaking points to a consistent problem with videotape tampering in Broward. The airport incident in Fort Lauderdale resulted in calls for enhanced security at outer perimeters of U.S. airports, a business that Israeli-owned aviation security companies are all-to-eager to accommodate. In the Fort Lauderdale airport incident, Trump's supporters pointed to the shooter's Hispanic ethnicity, even though Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. The shooting merely fed into the repeated anti-Hispanic gas-lighting by Trump.

When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Stoneman High School they were confused by what was billed as real-time security video streaming from inside the school. The real-time video images, broadcast by Broadcastify, an audio streaming website, were "delayed 20 minutes." The Coral Springs cops believed Cruz was still shooting inside the school when he was long gone and sitting at a nearby McDonald's restaurant.

Broward County serves as a nexus for Israeli intelligence and "Eurasian Mafia" and it hosts the Trump Hollywood Condo complex, which has attracted as buyers several dodgy characters with ties to Eastern European and Israeli organized crime. Broward and Hollywood, in particular, also served as a center for suspicious pre-9/11 activity, as previously reported by WMR.Hollywood [pictured, left, along Dixie Highway main thoroughfare], Fort Lauderdale to the north, and Hallandale and Aventura to the south lie in the heart of Broward County, which is heavily populated by Jewish transplants from New York City, like Sheriff Israel. Our sources in Broward continue to pose one major question: Why would alleged lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and his team have been cruising bars and causing scenes in a city with a large Jewish population, just four days before the Arabs were to carry out the "crime of the century" -- the hijacking of four passenger planes in order to fly them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon or White House, and the U.S. Capitol building?And why would Atta and his team have chosen to use a mail drop at a rental mailbox store in a shopping center catering to Jewish residents, next door to a kosher restaurant? In fact, the mail drop was practically located across the street from the apartment complex that housed at least one of the Israeli "art students" believed by U.S. intelligence to have been part of an Israeli intelligence team. Hollywood was one of several cities where the addresses of the Israeli art students closely matched up with those of the alleged hijackers.

Scott Israel not only has a lot of explaining to do over Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, but the use of his county by unsavory criminal syndicates linked to Trump and deplorable conspiracy propagandists associated with the likes of Alex Jones. Trump, for his part, has said he is envious that 9/11 raised George W. Bush's presidential popularity to over 90 percent. The Parkland shooting occurred as the Justice Department Special Counsel's investigation of Trump, his administration, and campaign team was reaching a crescendo. What part did Trump's dirty tricks team play in diverting attention from the federal courthouse in Washington, DC to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Florida?